Lars Larsson Lundsten, Author at Welkin by Elastisys

Secure Kubernetes Operational Practices: Protecting Access Credentials

February 14, 2024 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

Learn how Elastisys protects access credentials on all levels: cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes API, and SSH logins to servers. In this article, we explain one very important aspect of how we earn that faith: how we work with access credentials on all levels.

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Secure Kubernetes Operational Practices: Cross-provider Disaster Recovery

February 8, 2024 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

Say your cloud provider is ransomware attacked. Switching regions won’t help: those are compromised, too. Learn how Elastisys implements “cross-provider” disaster recovery for our customers, which is great for all customers, and in particular those in sectors of high criticality (NIS2).

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Container Platforms: Why and How?

December 18, 2023 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

This article is all about demystifying container platforms and showing what value they bring on several levels: business, organization, and tech.

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Our 15 Principles for Designing and Deploying Scalable Applications on Kubernetes

February 2, 2022 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

Our 15 principles for how to design and deploy cloud native applications on Kubernetes – for scalability, observability, automation & security.

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How to Do Vulnerability Management via Image Scanning in Harbor

January 11, 2022 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

In this article, we describe what container vulnerability scanning is, how it is done, and how open source tools help automate the procedure.

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The Challenges of Availability Zone Outage

December 23, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

The Challenges of Availability Zone Outage AWS recently had an outage of one of their availability zones in their US East region. The outage took down parts of popular services such as Slack and Hulu. The effects were felt worldwide: during the outage, we were unable to create new Slack chats between individuals, for instance.

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How to Use Lens with Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes

Using Lens with Compliant Kubernetes

December 2, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

This post explains how Lens provides an easy, secure graphical interface for managing Compliant Kubernetes clusters. It shows how Lens works with your existing permissions, requires no extra setup in the cluster, supports Helm, and can be quickly installed and connected using the provided steps.

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Managed Container Services: KaaS, KPaaS & CaaS Explained and Compared

October 19, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

A comparison between Kubernetes as a Service (e.g (EKS, GKE, AKS), Kubernetes Platform as a Services & Containers as a Service (e.g Fargate).

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Why Kubernetes was inevitable

July 19, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

In this article, I walk down my own memory lane and share my embarrassing experience from cobbling together much of what Kubernetes is today. Why do I now love Kubernetes? You’ll see when you read it.

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“But what if we just use encryption?” – Practical GDPR for CTOs

June 30, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

“But what if we just use encryption?” I get this a lot from CTOs when it comes to GDPR compliance. Can we use US cloud services if we encrypt the data?

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Cloud-agnostic third party managed Kubernetes services – the unexploited opportunity

June 3, 2021 • By Lars Larsson Lundsten

Managed Kubernetes services from cloud providers are not for everyone. We list 5 benefits of using a cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes.

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